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...mixture of nitric acid and alcohol was spilled in a sink at a Harvard Medical School building, causing a cloud to form in the room. The building was evacuated and an outside contractor was called in to clean the spill...
...independent contractor will inspect the worn Hasty Pudding building in the next month to see if it is safe for students to use next year, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 said last week...
...Nike overreaction is best illustrated by an incident which took place last fall, when I took two university-based "anti-sweat" activists to Indonesia. We were contacted by union officers at the sprawling Nikomas Gemilang factory, where more than 18,000 young Indonesians were making shoes for a Nike contractor; they wanted us to visit the factory. We weren't on the property for more than three minutes before a breathless Taiwanese manager chased us down and told us that no one could visit the factory without Nike's permission and, further, that we could not even see the dormitories...
...workers won a meager seniority clause increase of 15 cents per worker per day for each year of seniority, a worker with four years' experience would earn $1.70 a day, instead of $1.10. This does not sound like much money, but in this huge factory, it would cost the contractor $10,000 a day! No wonder the vast majority of Nike contractors have set up shop where bosses can refuse to bargain with workers...
...What a show," said Alvin Ballard, 56, a construction contractor who skipped work to watch. But jurors seemed less amused, which didn't surprise author John Maginnis, who has written two books about Edwards and says his act began to go stale in the '80s. The biggest blow to Edwards might actually have come before the trial even began, when it was moved from New Orleans, where it rains almost every afternoon to wash away the stain of sin, to Baton Rouge, which is less inclined to let the bon temps rouler. Even if Edwards walks, he'll have little...